Return-Path: LOJBAN%CUVMB.BITNET@vms.dc.LSOFT.COM Received: from SEGATE.SUNET.SE (segate.sunet.se [192.36.125.6]) by xiron.pc.helsinki.fi (8.7.1/8.7.1) with ESMTP id RAA03062 for ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 17:48:54 +0200 Message-Id: <199601291548.RAA03062@xiron.pc.helsinki.fi> Received: from listmail.sunet.se by SEGATE.SUNET.SE (LSMTP for OpenVMS v1.0a) with SMTP id 23DDD7FB ; Mon, 29 Jan 1996 16:48:55 +0100 Date: Mon, 29 Jan 1996 11:14:52 -0500 Reply-To: John Cowan Sender: Lojban list From: John Cowan Subject: Stability (was: cultural gismu) X-To: Lojban List To: Veijo Vilva In-Reply-To: <199601281202.HAA26102@locke.ccil.org> from "Logical Language Group" at Jan 28, 96 04:51:49 am Content-Length: 892 Lines: 20 la lojbab. cusku di'e > This actually says something about the nature of Lojban baselines - the gismu > list baseline,being much older and more firm than the grammar baseline, > and not the subject of a book, is nearly inviolable as to the baseline > elements (i.e the keywords and the rafsi). This can be compared to the > continued discussability of grammar changes because we haven;t so firmly > closed the door. The gismu-list stability is what most of the community seems > to want before they will learn the language. Before this causes more misunderstandings, I hasten to paraphrase the last sentence as: # Stability of the type that the gismu list now has, is what most of the # community seems to want in other aspects of the language before they # will learn Lojban. -- John Cowan cowan@ccil.org e'osai ko sarji la lojban.